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Runes 2018

Runes are enhancements that add new abilities or buffs to the champion. The player can choose their loadout of runes before the match begins, during champion select, or their Collection tab.

Runes Reforged (the current system of runes) was introduced in Pre-Season Eight, supplanting the previous system of Runes and Masteries, hence the name Reforged.[1][2][3]

Rune Pages[]

Rune pages inventory

Rune page inventory

A player can have a maximum of 25 custom rune pages, which are separate from the recommended rune page which cannot be edited and only exists per-game. Players in levels 1 to 9 cannot create nor edit rune pages.

New accounts have three empty rune pages available; additional pages are purchased in the store for 590 RP 590 or 6300 BE 6300 each.

It is not possible to enter a match without an active, valid rune page. In such a case, the game will automatically assign the player with the recommended rune page for their champion and role, upon game start.

Rune Recommender[]

Hovering or locking in a champion in the Champion Selection screen allows you to access the Rune Recommender button on the left side of the loadout. The Rune Recommender automatically determines and recommends the best rune sets for your chosen champion and role, and presents up to three different sets. You can select a set in order to apply it to your loadout.

  • These recommended rune sets are updated per-patch based on current data and the best runes available for each champion in each role.
  • Optionally, the Rune Recommender can also recommend summoner spell loadouts. The option can be enabled or disabled at will by clicking on the slider at the bottom of the Rune Recommender (this option persists through Champion Selection lobbies).

Rune paths[]

Runes are divided into five paths:

Rune icon
  • Precision icon Precision - Improved attacks and sustained damage
  • Domination icon Domination - Burst damage and target access
  • Sorcery icon Sorcery - Empowered abilities and resource manipulation
  • Resolve icon Resolve - Durability and crowd control
  • Inspiration icon Inspiration - Creative tools and rule bending
In-Game Runes

Each rune page contains runes from two paths: one primary and one secondary. The primary path has one keystone and three lesser runes. The secondary path has two lesser runes. There are also three Shard slots alongside the Primary and Secondary paths that follow a path separate from the five. Each individual slot can be filled with one selection.

Paths Keystone Slot 1 Slot 2 Slot 3
Precision icon
Precision Edit
Become a Legend
Press the Attack Press the Attack

Lethal Tempo Lethal Tempo Fleet Footwork Fleet Footwork Conqueror Conqueror

Overheal Overheal

Triumph Triumph Presence of Mind Presence of Mind

Legend: Alacrity Legend: Alacrity

Legend: Tenacity Legend: Tenacity Legend: Bloodline Legend: Bloodline

Coup de Grace Coup de Grace

Cut Down Cut Down Last Stand Last Stand

Domination icon
Domination Edit
Hunt and Eliminate Prey
Electrocute Electrocute

Predator Predator Dark Harvest Dark Harvest Hail of Blades Hail of Blades

Cheap Shot Cheap Shot

Taste of Blood Taste of Blood Sudden Impact Sudden Impact

Zombie Ward Zombie Ward

Ghost Poro Ghost Poro Eyeball Collection Eyeball Collection

Treasure Hunter Treasure Hunter

Ingenious Hunter Ingenious Hunter Relentless Hunter Relentless Hunter Ultimate Hunter Ultimate Hunter

Sorcery icon
Sorcery Edit
Unleash Destruction
Summon Aery Summon Aery

Arcane Comet Arcane Comet Phase Rush Phase Rush

Nullifying Orb Nullifying Orb

Manaflow Band Manaflow Band Nimbus Cloak Nimbus Cloak

Transcendence Transcendence

Celerity Celerity Absolute Focus Absolute Focus

Scorch Scorch

Waterwalking Waterwalking Gathering Storm Gathering Storm

Resolve icon
Resolve Edit
Live Forever
Grasp of the Undying Grasp of the Undying

Aftershock Aftershock Guardian Guardian

Demolish Demolish

Font of Life Font of Life Shield Bash Shield Bash

Conditioning Conditioning

Second Wind Second Wind Bone Plating Bone Plating

Overgrowth Overgrowth

Revitalize Revitalize Unflinching Unflinching

Inspiration icon
Inspiration Edit
Outwit Mere Mortals
Glacial Augment Glacial Augment

Unsealed Spellbook Unsealed Spellbook First Strike First Strike

Hextech Flashtraption Hextech Flashtraption

Magical Footwear Magical Footwear Triple Tonic Triple Tonic

Future's Market Future's Market

Minion Dematerializer Minion Dematerializer Biscuit Delivery Biscuit Delivery

Cosmic Insight Cosmic Insight

Approach Velocity Approach Velocity Time Warp Tonic Time Warp Tonic

Shards[]

Option 1
Option 2
Option 3
Slot 1
Offense
Rune shard Adaptive Force
5.4 bonus Attack Damage or 9 Ability Power (Adaptive)
Rune shard Attack Speed
10% bonus attack speed
Rune shard Cooldown Reduction
8 ability haste
Slot 2
Flex
Rune shard Adaptive Force
5.4 bonus Attack Damage or 9 Ability Power (Adaptive)
Rune shard Movement Speed
2% bonus movement speed
Rune shard Health Scaling
10 − 180 (based on level) bonus health
Slot 3
Defense
Rune shard Health
65 bonus health
Rune shard Tenacity and Slow Resist
10% Tenacity icon tenacity and Slow immune icon slow resist
Rune shard Health Scaling
10 − 180 (based on level) bonus health

Substitutions[]

There are game modes and champions in which certain runes are essentially useless. The game will substitute unusable runes automatically upon the game start and print a chat message to the player with the change.

Last updated: V14.2

Trivia[]

Sorcery Path Animation
  • During development, Precision and Sorcery were originally going to be Primary path only.[4]
  • Runes are referred to internally as "perks".[5]
  • Runes and their surrounding areas have distinct visual appearances which bear similarities to certain Runeterran factions. This may be intentional in order to reflect the location of the World Runes:
  • Every rune that gives bonus Adaptive AD or AP, will always grant about 60% of the amount of AP as AD, or about 166.6% of the amount of AD as AP.
Calculation of rune combinations
Count Paths Calculation
Primary path Secondary path Primary path Secondary path Total Combinations
1 Precision iconPrecision Domination iconDomination 4*3*3*3=108 3*3+3*4+4*3=33 108*33=3564
1 Precision iconPrecision Sorcery iconSorcery 4*3*3*3=108 3*3+3*3+3*3=27 108*27=2916
1 Precision iconPrecision Resolve iconResolve 4*3*3*3=108 3*3+3*3+3*3=27 108*27=2916
1 Precision iconPrecision Inspiration iconInspiration 4*3*3*3=108 3*3+3*3+3*3=27 108*27=2916
1 Domination iconDomination Sorcery iconSorcery 4*3*3*4=144 3*3+3*3+3*3=27 144*27=3888
1 Domination iconDomination Resolve iconResolve 4*3*3*4=144 3*3+3*3+3*3=27 144*27=3888
1 Domination iconDomination Inspiration iconInspiration 4*3*3*4=144 3*3+3*3+3*3=27 144*27=3888
1 Sorcery iconSorcery Resolve iconResolve 3*3*3*3=81 3*3+3*3+3*3=27 81*27=2187
1 Sorcery iconSorcery Inspiration iconInspiration 3*3*3*3=81 3*3+3*3+3*3=27 81*27=2187
1 Resolve iconResolve Inspiration iconInspiration 3*3*3*3=81 3*3+3*3+3*3=27 81*27=2187
1 Domination iconDomination Precision iconPrecision 4*3*3*4=144 3*3+3*3+3*3=27 144*27=3888
1 Sorcery iconSorcery Precision iconPrecision 3*3*3*3=81 3*3+3*3+3*3=27 81*27=2187
1 Resolve iconResolve Precision iconPrecision 3*3*3*3=81 3*3+3*3+3*3=27 81*27=2187
1 Inspiration iconInspiration Precision iconPrecision 3*3*3*3=81 3*3+3*3+3*3=27 81*27=2187
1 Sorcery iconSorcery Domination iconDomination 3*3*3*3=81 3*3+3*4+4*3=33 81*33=2673
1 Resolve iconResolve Domination iconDomination 3*3*3*3=81 3*3+3*4+4*3=33 81*33=2673
1 Inspiration iconInspiration Domination iconDomination 3*3*3*3=81 3*3+3*4+4*3=33 81*33=2673
1 Resolve iconResolve Sorcery iconSorcery 3*3*3*3=81 3*3+3*3+3*3=27 81*27=2187
1 Inspiration iconInspiration Sorcery iconSorcery 3*3*3*3=81 3*3+3*3+3*3=27 81*27=2187
1 Inspiration iconInspiration Resolve iconResolve 3*3*3*3=81 3*3+3*3+3*3=27 81*27=2187
Total
20 55566

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History[]

Removed runes[]

Rune presets[]

Prior to the introduction of the Rune Recommender in V12.23, the client offered five preset rune pages that could not be edited, but were viewable in the player's Collection tab. Also, if an invalid rune page was selected, it was substituted for one of the preset rune pages upon game start. The preset selection depended on your champion's traits.

  • 'The Perfect' preset was originally called 'The Prefect,' as with the Set Title. It is unknown why this was changed.

Rune traits[]

Prior to the introduction of Shards in V8.23, players received a bonus based on the combination of their sets (e.g. Sorcery + Precision). These combinations had specific Titles, which are shared with the corresponding presets. The following is listed for archive purposes:

Secondary ► Precision Domination Sorcery Resolve Inspiration
Primary ▼
Precision The Merciless Elite The Brazen Prefect The Eternal Champion The Savant
Domination The Twisted Surgeon The Aether Blade The Immortal Butcher The Wicked Maestro
Sorcery The Incontestable Spellslinger The Calamity The Ancient One The Cryptic
Resolve The Imperious Behemoth The Leviathan The Arcane Colossus The Enlightened Titan
Inspiration The Elegant Duelist The Ruthless Visionary The Stargazer The Timeless

Champion stat adjustments[]

After the launch of Runes Reforged, the balance of champion stats was heavily impacted due to their dependence on the old Rune system's direct stat buffs.

  • The following generalize the changes made to compensate for the loss of attack damage from marks and health or armor from seals, which were almost unanimously used due to the lack of options (and thus the game has been balanced, for example, around most champions having 9 bonus armor from seals). The exact values may vary for specific cases, as Riot also took this opportunity to better distinguish classes (e.g., tanks from non-tanks; ranged from melee), as well as buff or nerf specific champions.
    • AD champions had the base damage on their abilities increased by 5.
      • Ranged AD champions also had their base attack damage increased by 8.
    • Most champions had their base armor increased by 9.
      • Most mages had their base health increased by 12, instead. Primarily excluding junglers.
      • Melee supports had their base armor increased by 20, instead.


Patch History[]

V14.2
  • Slot 2 option 2 changed to Rune shard Movement Speed 2% bonus movement speed from Rune shard Armor 6 bonus armor.
  • Slot 2 option 3 changed to Rune shard Health Scaling 10 − 180 (based on level) bonus health from Rune shard Magic Resistance 8 bonus magic resistance.
  • Rune shard Health Slot 3 option 1 bonus health changed to 65 at all levels from 15 − 140 (based on level).
  • Slot 3 option 2 changed to Rune shard Tenacity and Slow Resist 10% tenacity and slow resist from Rune shard Armor 6 bonus armor.
  • Slot 3 option 3 changed to Rune shard Health Scaling 10 − 180 (based on level) bonus health from Rune shard Magic Resistance 8 bonus magic resistance.
V14.1
V12.23
  • New: Rune Recommender.
  • Removed: Preset Rune pages.
V11.23
V11.21
  • Rune shard Health Slot 3 bonus health increased to 15 − 140 (based on level) from 15 − 90 (based on level).
V10.23
  • Rune shard Cooldown Reduction Slot 1 cooldown reduction shard now grants 8 ability haste at all levels, instead of 1% − 10% (based on level) cooldown reduction.
V9.23
V9.2
  • Slot 1 and 2 adaptive shard reduced to (5.4 bonus AD or 9 AP) from (6 bonus AD or 10 AP).
  • Slot 2 and 3 armor shard increased to 6 bonus armor from 5.
  • Slot 2 and 3 magic resistance shard increased to 8 bonus magic resistance from 6.
V9.1
  • Offense attack speed shard increased to 10% bonus attack speed from 9%.
V8.23
V8.11
V8.6
V8.4
V7.23
  • Added an option to hide preset pages.
V7.22 - Added
  • Added to the live servers.
  • Any Rune Pages the player owned in the previous system have been transferred across to the new system, in addition to the currency compensation received.
  • Individual rune changes are documented on the respective rune's page.

References

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